Ravinia 2019, Issue 6, Week 12

MARTA AZNAVOORIAN, piano Chicago native Marta Aznavoorian is an active member of the city’s music community, serving on the faculties of the Music Institute of Chicago and DePaul University as well as holding a res- idency at the Merit School of Music. She made her professional performance debut at age 13 as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orches- tra. Aznavoorian furthered her piano studies at Indiana University under Menahem Pressler, earning a Bachelor of Music and an Artist Di- ploma, and she went on to complete a Master of Music at the New England Conservatory. Az- navoorian’s performance accolades include first prizes in several competitions, such as the Stra- vinsky International Competition, Aspen Music Festival Competition, and Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Competition, as well as be- ing named a presidential scholar by the Nation- al Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. A champion and lover of contemporary repertoire, she has worked with such leading composers as William Bolcom, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Shulamit Ran, Augusta Read Thomas, Laura Schwendinger, Stacey Garrop, and Marta Ptaszy ska. In addition to the CSO, Aznavoori- an has appeared as a soloist with the Sydney, San Diego, San Angelo, Northwest Indiana, and New World Symphonies, Aspen Concert Orchestra, and New Millennium Orchestra, and she has collaborated in chamber concerts with such art- ists as the Pacifica Quartet, Camerata Pacifica, violinists Julian Rachlin, Ilya Kaler, and Miriam Fried, violist Roberto Díaz, and cellists Colin Carr and Ani Aznavoorian. She has also given solo recitals at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Sydney Opera House, Stein- way Hall, and the Caramoor and Tanglewood Festivals, as well as on Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Series. A founding member of the Lincoln Trio, Marta Aznavoorian has performed at Ra- vinia with the ensemble every year since 2008. Additionally, she has made three previous solo appearances at the festival, including perform- ing Rachmaninoff ’s Two Pieces for Six-Hands Piano with fellow pianists Josephine Lee and Ravinia President and CEO Welz Kauffman. 5:00 PM & 8:30 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2019 MARTIN THEATRE LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S TROUBLE IN TAHITI CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC MARIN ALSOP, conductor PATRICIA RACETTE, Dinah PAULO SZOT, Sam MICHELLE AREYZAGA, Trio NILS NILSEN, Trio NATHANIEL OLSON, Trio RACHEL TOBIAS, stage manager BERNSTEIN Trouble in Tahiti * Prelude: Mornin’ Sun (Trio) Scene 1: How could you say (Sam, Dinah, Trio) Scene 2: Yes? Oh Mister Partridge! (Sam, Trio) Scene 3: I was standing in a garden (Dinah) Scene 3b: Then the desire took hold inside me (Dinah) Scene 4: Well, of all people (Sam, Dinah) Interlude: Skid a lit day Scene 5: There’s a law (Sam) Scene 6: What a movie (Dinah, Trio) Scene 6b: There’s a law that a man has to pay for what he gets (Sam) Scene 7: Evening Shadows (Sam, Dinah, Trio) There will be no intermission in this program. * First performance at Ravinia Supertitles by Francesco Milioto Presented by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., sole agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner. Ravinia expresses its appreciation to Sponsor Madeleine P. and Harvey R. Plonsker, in memory of Arnold and Adele Maremont , for their generous support of the 8:30 p.m. performance. Jamie Bernstein and Marin Alsop will lead a discussion of Trouble in Tahiti at 7:00 p.m. in the Park View Restaurant, where a tiki-themed menu with flavors of the Fifties will be served between performances, allowing all ticketholders the opportunity to make dinner reservations and attend the talk. Jamie Bernstein will also be signing hardcover copies of her bestselling memoir Famous Father Girl . RAVINIA MAGAZINE | AUGUST 19 – AUGUST 25, 2019 98